Twenty-five minutes into the first U.S. Senate debate Friday night, Danny Tarkanian went on the attack against GOP front-runner Sue Lowden, accusing her of voting for “pork” projects as a state senator and driving up spending.
Billionaire Sheldon Adelson was paid $5.58 million in 2009 as the chairman and chief executive of casino-resort developer Las Vegas Sands Corp., according to an Associated Press analysis of a regulatory filing Friday.
A two-year courtship of Findlay Prep point guard Cory Joseph has ended with UNLV coach Lon Kruger empty handed. Joseph, considered the nation’s top unsigned senior, announced Friday he will play college basketball at Texas. He called Kruger to deliver the news.
The faltering Las Vegas economy showed up on another front as hospital operating losses nearly doubled last year to $133.1 million.
BERLIN — Tired of spinning that steering wheel? Try this: German researchers have developed a new technology that lets drivers steer cars using only their eyes.
WASHINGTON — The leaders of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on Friday set a June 1 deadline for decisions whether to allow for the termination of the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste site, a move that could speed the shutdown of the controversial project.